Today's Thought - February

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February 21

Change means movement, movement means friction, friction means heat, and heat means controversy.

~Saul Alinsky

We talk about wanting to change, to face up to our addiction, and our desire is real and genuine. But we must realize that change can continue to involve real pain for ourselves and others.

We were so comfortable for so long with our addiction! It had become our pacifier and our crutch. We wondered why we should bother to move forward and away from our world of ritual and fantasy and acting out.

But were we really at home there? What about our anger? Our remorse? Our feelings of hopelessness and despair? The shame that caused us to shun intimacy and touch? Were we truly comfortable? Has change been so harsh in comparison with the misery of our addiction? Even knowing there would be struggles and disagreements along the way, one day we cried, "Enough! I am powerless." We were ready, then, to face our struggles for a new, honest way of living.

I know that change will be hard, but I'm glad to join in the process of movement and growth that is life.

Today's reading is from the book Answers in the Heart